APRIL 2009

Cadaqués Caribe

Cadaqués CaribeWhere one could perhaps see Dali dancing the Merengue

BREAKING NEWS: It would have to be asked to the movie actor Juan Fernández, who was the best friend of Salvador Dali, if the Spanish genius danced the merengue.

There is no doubt because he was too brilliant to not dance and his life sense was higher from social considerations.

In any case, in the country where was born his friend Juan Fernández, on the open sea of the Caribbean, a village as one of those which the Spanish Mediterranean made famous is built. This one is called Cadaqués Caribe.

It should be said that the original Cadaqués is the cradle of Salvador Dali and that it is there where which can find the House Museum which has the name of the artist, where he lived with his wife Gala.

The Dominican Cadaqués, for its part, is located on the littoral of Bayahíbe, at approximately a half hour and of the capital, after having crossed La Romana and the Río Chavón.

It a beach complex addressed to a high level market.

This very white village (as the original Cadaqués) of some 50 thousand square meters, will be a community shop and is starting its second stage of construction with 90 housing units, a beautiful central swimming pool, another for children, an institutional building and 320 places of car park. This new stage is added to the 127 apartments of the first stage, during which they built the aqueduct, the water treatment plant, a church and 20 commercial premises, among restaurants, a bakery and a pharmacy.

Narrow streets which point out those of Cadaqués de Gerona, curve between constructions which have like central axis the beach and two public gardens.

The project offers to the owners to be member of the Beach Club, equipped with restaurants, bar and cafeterias, convention centers, Internet point, gymnasium, programs of tourist sports activities and excursions as well as many other exclusive services.

Bayahíbe Live, 08.04.09

Cadaqués Caribe starts a new phase of apartments

Cadaqués Caribe starts a new phase of appartementsIn the tourist zone of Bayahibe

BREAKING NEWS: Bayahibe.- The Real Estate enterprise Cadaqués Caribe started the second phase of its apartments project in the tourist zone of Bayahibe, located 15 minutes away of the International airport of La Romana, and 20 minutes away of Casa de Campo.

The second phase will add 90 apartments, two swimming pools, an institutional building and more than 320 car parks to the project that already offers 127 apartments, and aqueduct and its own sewage treatment plant, a church, and twenty commercial premises with restaurants, bakeries, pharmacy, Spa, supermarket, travel agency and shops.

Cadaqués Caribe brings the guarantee of a good inversion, according to what said the project’s promoters during the announcement of the second phase.

The complex is located next to the fishermen village of Bayahibe, and not far from the Catalina and Saona islands.

The architecture is Mediterranean style, inspired from the coasts of Spain and Italy. Its design is concentrated on the beach and the two plazas: one in front of the beach and the other in the center of the complex.

The apartments of the two phases are distributed on 3 levels buildings, and they are from 40 to 200 square meters.

Bayahíbe Live, 17.04.09

Groups in Bayahibe plant trees

Groups in Bayahibe plant treesIn National Park of the East

BREAKING NEWS: BAYAHIBE, Dominican Republic.- Few time ago, residents of the town Bayahibe planted more than 200 endemic tree species in the National Park of the East as part of the activities to mark the international days dedicated to forests and water.

Around 100 volunteers took part including tourists, employees and members of the La Romana-Bayahibe Hotel Association (AHRB) and Environment Ministry (SEMARENA) personnel, in the planting trees such as Mahogany and other varieties in the Park’s Padre Nuestro zone, water source for Bayahibe and the hotels.

In 2002 and thanks to the AHRB’s efforts Padre Nuestro was annexed to the Park, given its natural and economic importance.

After the planting the participants were treated to Archaeological and Ecotourism tour of Padre Nuestro, to observe its flora and fauna, to view the landscapers of promontories and springs, and the impressive petroglyphs in the cave Chicho.

The activity was cosponsored by Costa Nursery, the La Romana Minibuses Association.

Since 2000 the AHRB promotes the zone’s sustainable development with the creation of products and infrastructure projects to improve and market the tourist destination.

Its members are the Hotel Oasis Canoa, Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach, Viva Wyndham Dominicus Palace, Hotel Catalonia Gran Dominicus, Hotel Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus, Casa de Campo, La Estancia Golf Resort, Casino Dominicus, Bahía Príncipe, La Romana International Airport, the La Romana Tourist Porto, Cadaques and Tropical Tours.

Dominican Today, 28.04.09